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Chicken or egg?https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/392563-Chicken-or-egg?goto=newpost
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:13:51 GMTpossibly dumb question. just deal with it. i know that my computer's OS allows for 5 region code changes before locking into the last one used. if i try to back up an out of region dvd with some software package (shrink/decrypter/ripit4me), is it the software which notices the region coding or windows? as in, if i try to back up a region 1 disc after backing up five region 2 discs, will the computer then be permanently locked into region 2? which program has priority on region coding?
thank you to pieces.
]]>DVD Rippingmajormulattohttps://forum.videohelp.com/threads/392563-Chicken-or-eggInterlacing Problems Ripping Futruama NTSC DVDshttps://forum.videohelp.com/threads/392534-Interlacing-Problems-Ripping-Futruama-NTSC-DVDs?goto=newpost
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:49:18 GMTBear with me, as I am pretty much a total newbie to video stuff. I'm ripping Futurama from NTSC DVDs I bought forever ago using Handbreak (the only software I know much about atm). I've done a bunch of reading but am probably still making some mistakes. Basically, I set "Detelecine" to Default and Constant Framerate to 23.976 to get rid of telecine issues.

I tried a number of settings for Deinterlace, but kept getting interlaced lines in the video output. I eventually found smart people recommend leaving interlacing in the video for this kind of source, so using H.264 I added ":tff" to Handbrake's "Extra Options". After messing that up a few times, I finally got it so MediaInfo now reports "interlaced=tff" on the output video.

The problem is that now I'm seeing some weird color-interlacing in VLC (as you can see in the included png; there is a red smear where Fry's tongue will be in the next frame), especially in the earlier Futurama episodes (which are apparently kind of famous for being kind of crappy DVDs).

Questions:
1) Did I do the right thing to undo the telecine used on this DVD?
2) What, if anything, can I do to fix the color-smearing? Keep in mind, I barely know what I'm doing w/ video encoding, so try to dumb it down a little if possible.
2) How can I tell if the DVD is tff or bff interlaced? I'm pretty sure this source is tff, but I'd like to know how to find out for sure.